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| Full name | Joe Connor Fraser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1998-12-06)6 December 1998 (age 27) Birmingham,England, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Great Britain England(2014–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Birmingham GC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Headcoach(es) | Lee Woolls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Joe Connor Fraser (born 6 December 1998)[1][2] is an English artistic gymnast and member of the British national team. As the2019 world champion on theparallel bars and2022 European all-around andparallel bars champion, he became the first British gymnast to win gold in these events, the first black male to win a world championships gold medal in gymnastics, and the thirdBritish world champion (following Beth Tweddle and Max Whitlock). Fraser also became the first British gymnast to win a medal on the horizontal bar, taking bronze at the2025 World Championships.
Fraser has also wonteam gold and silver, and bronze on the pommel horse at theEuropean Championships, and was a member of the 2021 and 2024 Olympic teams.
Representing England at the2022 Commonwealth Games, Fraser won three gold medals in theteam,pommel horse andparallel bars events.
Fraser was born 6 December 1998 with six fingers on each hand; he had the additional digits removed as a baby.[3] At age five, Fraser enjoyed doing flips at home; his mother, concerned about injury, sent him to a gymnastics centre to learn how to do the skills properly.[4]
He studied atSandwell Academy[5] from 2010 to 2015.
When he retires, Fraser intends to become a gymnastics coach and opened his own gymnastics club, Joe Fraser Gymnastics, in Lichfield in 2025.[4][6]
Fraser made his international senior debut in June at the2017 European Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania where he placed fifth in the all-around.[4]
In July, he won the All-Around title at the 2017British Championships. He also won a gold medal on the high bar, silver medal on still rings and bronze medal on parallel bars.[7]
Fraser also competed at the2017 World Championships inQuebec, Canada.[8]
Early in the year, Fraser fell from the horizontal bar and damaged ligaments in his ankles, making him unable to compete in the2018 Commonwealth Games in theGold Coast, Australia.[4] He returned to international competition at the2018 World Challenge Cup inGuimares, Portugal where he made the pommel horse, still rings and parallel bars finals.[4]
At the2018 European Championships inGlasgow, Fraser won a silver as part of the team.[9] He also made the parallel bar and horizontal bar finals.
Fraser also competed at the2018 World Championships inDoha, Qatar, where the team placed fifth.[8]
In March 2019, Fraser won a silver medal on the high bar and bronze medal on parallel bars at theBritish Championships. At the2019 European Championships inSzczecin, Poland, Fraser narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by 0.033 marks in the all-around final.[10]
In October, Fraser won gold at the2019 World Championships inStuttgart for his performance on the parallel bars with a score 15.000.[8] He was the youngest competitor on the apparatus and his win was Great Britain's first gold medal on the apparatus.[11]
At the2021 European Championships Fraser took bronze on the pommel horse.[12]
At the2020 Summer Olympics inTokyo, Fraser competed for Great Britain. The team, consisting ofMax Whitlock,James Hall,Giarnni Regini-Moran and Fraser, took fourth place with a score of 255.76. Fraser qualified for the individual all-around final where he came 9th and the parallel bar final where he came 8th in his debut games.[13]
At theBritish Championships Fraser won the all-around, floor exercise, pommel horse, and horizontal bar titles.[14] Fraser competed at theBaku World Cup where he advanced to the parallel bars and horizontal bar finals. During the parallel bars final he won bronze medal behindIllia Kovtun from Ukraine andFerhat Arican from Turkey. The next day he won gold on the horizontal bar.[15]
Despite fracturing his foot two weeks before theCommonwealth Games, Fraser was able to compete on four apparatus and contribute to the England team's successful defence of theirCommonwealth title.[16][17][18] Fraser also went on to take gold in both thepommel horse andparallel bars. In the former, he beat2018 championRhys McClenaghan while in the latter, he beat compatriotGiarnni Regini-Moran.[19][20]
At the2022 European Championships Fraser helped Great Britain win the gold in the Team competition. Additionally he won gold in the all-around ahead ofAdem Asil andAhmet Önder, becoming the first British man to win a European all-around title.[21] Fraser qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, winning gold on the parallel bars.[22]
At the2022 World Championships Fraser helped Great Britain take bronze in the Team competition and also qualified for the all-around final in fourth place.[23] The bronze was Great Britain's second World team medal, having won silver in Glasgow in 2015.[23]
At the2024 European Championships Fraser helped Great Britain finish second as a team behind Ukraine.[24] In June of that year he was selected to representGreat Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongsideJake Jarman,Harry Hepworth,Luke Whitehouse, andMax Whitlock. The team placed fourth in the team competition.[25]
Fraser completed at the2025 Paris World Challenge Cup where he qualified for the rings, parallel bars, and horizontal bar finals. He won gold on parallel bars and bronze on rings.[26] In late September he was selected to represent Great Britain at the2025 World Championships.[27] He became the first British gymnast to win a medal on thehorizontal bar, taking bronze.[28] His score of 14.700 saw him finish behind AmericanBrody Malone, who won gold, andJapan'sDaiki Hashimoto.[28]
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